Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity

Yesterday my channelroll broke, and began displaying the
message:
The server returned a SOAP-ENV:Client fault: Can't create item
"." because "" is an illegal name. I think I've seen this
happen on other sites, but I never got the chance to figure out
what it meant until it happened to me. Here's the explanation, and
the fix.

Some quirk involving the rssify script and the
blogspot.com service was (temporarily, I guess) resulting in an
empty channel-level <title> element. You can, it
turns out, subscribe to a feed whose channel title is empty. But it
breaks the channelroll. I'veupdatedthe
script with the following bolded changes:

The
bad URL was, in any case, apparently obselete. The current one
is:

www.voidstar.com/module.php?mod=blog&op=feed&name=jbond

It
strikes me that with namespace support for RSS, an element might be
added that would enable aggregators to redirect in such cases. This
was a problem for me when I switched from radio.weblogs.com to
weblog.infoworld.com. I was stuck doing this:

<item>
<title>Redirection</title>
<link>http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/rss.xml
</link>
<description>This feed has moved to
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/rss.xml. I've used a client-side
redirect (HTTP-EQUIV="refresh") for the home page, but haven't
figured out how to do the same for the RSS channel. If you see a
way, please clue me in. Otherwise, if you want to keep subscribing
to my feed, you'll have to switch your aggregator to the new link.
Sorry for the inconvenience! - Jon</description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

I
don't see anyproposed modulesthat address this situation, but I can imagine a mod_redir
that would go something like this: